I am so thrilled that we’ve made the leap to literature-based unit studies in our homeschool. They are such a wonderful, gentle way to learn!
Papa Piccolo Activities
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This past week, my children and I enjoyed Papa Piccolo. Every week I say, “This one is my favorite!” and this week was no exception.
Some books lend themselves to so many learning opportunities that it’s hard to choose which activities we want to do, and Papa Piccolo certainly falls in that category!
This week, my children and I learned all about Italy – its place in the world geographically, the colors of the Italian flag, and several Italian phrases.
Since Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice, we studied him just a bit. We use the book Lives of the Musicians and it gives just enough interesting information about a composer to whet a child’s interest.
We also listened to Spring of Vivaldi’s concertos The Four Seasons. My almost 7-year old started violin lessons recently, so this violin concerto was especially interesting to her!
We also read Gail Gibbons’ Cats and completed several activities related to how cats move and other characteristics.
Cat printables are coming soon and I’ll share those in a future post!
Papa Piccolo Printables
I created a 10-page set of printables to go along with our study of Papa Piccolo.
In this worksheet set, you’ll find:
- The Flag of Italy – Color the Italian flag and practice writing the sentence about the Italian capital Rome
- Geography – Use the map of Italy to answer the questions
- Word Search
- Papa Piccolo Coloring Page – Color Piccolo the cat!
- Book Report – Complete the book report with facts from the story
- Writing Practice – Practice handwriting with words from the story
I hope you enjoy your time with Papa Piccolo as much as we did!
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Thanks so much for charing.
So glad you can use them, Niki! 🙂
WE love lit based learning. I look forward to seeing more lit studies for the very young from you in the future! I have three children..one graduated, one 16 and starting all over again with a 4 yr old. I am too tired to do this all over again alone when I was almost done. LOL!! I enjoy having click and print help!
Thanks for sharing these printables. I have been planning my FIAR work for my kindergartner and keep finding printables where I only want to use one or two pages. Your pack was so perfect I needed EVERY page! Thank you for making a mapwork page. That is something I can’t seem to find enough of for my kids. I appreciate the time you put into this.
Alicia, I am so tickled you can use it with your own FIAR studies! My kiddos love map work, so I always try to include at last one page for them to work on.
Thanks for stopping by!
So glad that you started using FIAR! I love your site as a resource for my prek then and K this yr, and we use FIAR. So happy that u are too and creating these great printables! Thank u for sharing!! We are blessed!
Thanks for your sweet comment, HC! Enjoy this new homeschool year! 🙂
I would love to download them.
But I can’t figure it out how to or where to..
Could you please help me?
My homeschooler loves “Papa Piccolo” book.